Lux Radio Theater
by dusky-1 | created - 27 Mar 2013 | updated - 01 Apr 2013 | PublicThe Lux Radio Theater aired from 1934-55. Occasionally adapting plays, the series' focus for most of its run was in adapting feature films to radio, often with members of the original cast recreating their parts. Many of these broadcasts still exist; because Lux was a popular and influential program, I think this list is an interesting snapshot of what was considered worthy of adaptation (and by omission, what was not).
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1. Morocco (1930)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt
Votes: 7,467
Adapted by 06-01-36; earlier broadcasts were adaptations of plays, often overlapping with films, but this is evidently the first true film adaptation of the series.
2. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 32,511
Adapted 06-08-36
3. The Dark Angel (1935)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance
The close relationship between a woman and her two male childhood friends is tested when she accepts a marriage proposal from one of them, while the burgeoning First World War threatens to change their lives forever.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Fredric March, Merle Oberon, Herbert Marshall, Janet Beecher
Votes: 960
Adapted 06-22-36
4. Irene (1926)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Irene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune. She gets a job as a dressmaker's model and becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, George K. Arthur, Charles Murray
Votes: 102 | Gross: $0.30M
Adapted 06-29-36
5. The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Family
The countrymen in the hills of Missouri take the hounds on night fox hunts. This goes on until Jacob Terry comes into the county and decides to raise sheep and install a woven wire fence. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Eric Linden, Dudley Digges
Votes: 278
Adapted 07-06-36
6. The Brat (1931)
60 min | Comedy
A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Alan Dinehart, Frank Albertson, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 213
Adapted 07-13-36
7. The Barker (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A carnival barker wants his son to become a lawyer, but his son gets side-tracked into joining the carnival too.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 123
Adapted 07-20-36
8. Chained (1934)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance
A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 1,114
Adapted 07-27-36
9. Main Street (1923)
90 min | Drama
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Harry Myers, Robert Gordon
Votes: 19
Adapted 08-03-36
10. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,065 | Gross: $7.63M
Adapted 08-10-36; 06-02-47
11. The Vagabond King (1930)
104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth
Votes: 229
Adapted 08-17-36; 12-25-44
12. One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 737
Adapted 08-24-36
13. Cheating Cheaters (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
The Palmers, an apparently wealthy family, move into the house next door to the Lazarres. However, the Palmers are actually a gang of thieves plotting to rob the Lazarres. What the Palmers ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Fay Wray, Cesar Romero, Minna Gombell, Henry Armetta
Votes: 26
Adapted 08-31-36
14. Is Zat So? (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
Two brothers , a boxer and his manager, are hired by a wealthy man to teach him how to fight. The wealthy man is dealing with a larcenous brother-in-law, who is seeking to control his and his sister's inheritance.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, Katherine Perry, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 10
Adapted 09-07-36
15. Quality Street (1927)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch
Votes: 797
Adapted 09-14-36
16. Trilby (1923)
80 min | Drama
A wild magician with hypnotic power captures a lovely art model from the Latin Quarter and turns her into a concert singer. Her student lover has almost given up finding her when he luckily sees her on stage.
Director: James Young | Stars: Andrée Lafayette, Creighton Hale, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Philo McCullough
Adapted 09-21-36
17. Elmer, the Great (1933)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Patricia Ellis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd
Votes: 601
Adapted 10-05-36
18. Captain Applejack (1930)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Mary Brian, John Halliday, Kay Strozzi, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 122
Adapted 10-19-36
20. The Virginian (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Romance, Western
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen
Votes: 861
Adapted 11-02-36
21. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928)
Passed | 88 min | Drama
Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls in love with the president's ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Leila Hyams, Karl Dane
Votes: 41
Adapted 11-09-36
22. The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Passed | 86 min | Biography, Drama, History
The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods
Votes: 3,147
Adapted 11-23-36
23. Polly of the Circus (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance
After a trapeze performer is injured during an accident, she is moved to a minister's house where they both fall in love.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 1,235
Adapted 11-30-36
24. The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Young millionaire Albert Durant poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled Grand Duchess, who does not object since she knows who he is and he doesn't know she knows. And his money will ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor, Lawrence Grant, George Beranger
Votes: 68
Adapted 12-07-36
25. Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)
100 min | Comedy
A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Director: Léonce Perret | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Votes: 55 | Gross: $0.41M
Adapted 12-14-36
26. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 9,138 | Gross: $4.80M
Adapted 12-21-36
27. Cavalcade (1933)
Passed | 112 min | Drama, Romance, War
A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 5,969 | Gross: $7.63M
Adapted 12-28-36
28. Men in White (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 787
Adapted 01-04-37
29. The Gilded Lily (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 791
Adapted 01-11-37
30. The Criminal Code (1930)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff
Votes: 1,373
Adapted 01-18-37
31. Tonight or Never (1931)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Alison Skipworth, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Votes: 1,610
Adapted 01-25-37
32. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
Votes: 23,200
Adapted 02-01-37
33. Graustark (1925)
84 min | Drama, Romance
While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through... See full summary »
Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Marc McDermott, Roy D'Arcy
Gross: $0.30M
Adapted 02-08-37
34. Brewster's Millions (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in ... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Lili Damita, Nancy O'Neil, Sydney Fairbrother
Votes: 84
Adapted 02-15-37
35. Captain Blood (1935)
Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 16,092 | Gross: $2.96M
Adapted 02-22-37
36. Cappy Ricks (1921)
60 min | Adventure, Drama
Seaman Matt Peasley drifts into San Francisco with his pal Murphy and rescues Florrie Ricks, daughter of shipowner Cappy Ricks, from a pickpocket. Peasley and his friend are signed on one ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Charles S. Abbe, Agnes Ayres, Hugh Cameron
Votes: 16
Adapted 03-01-37
37. Madame Butterfly (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Lieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Irving Pichel
Votes: 444
Adapted 03-08-37
38. Desire (1936)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley
Votes: 2,805
Adapted 03-15-37
39. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 2,404
Adapted 03-22-37
40. Dulcy (1923)
70 min | Comedy
Dulcy (Constance Talmadge), a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Claude Gillingwater, Jack Mulhall, May Wilson
Adapted 03-29-37
41. A Farewell to Arms (1932)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips
Votes: 6,804
Adapted 04-05-37
42. Dodsworth (1936)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor
Votes: 10,193
Adapted 04-12-37; 10-04-37
43. Alibi Ike (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 717
Adapted 04-19-37
44. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's sole resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness
Votes: 1,123
Adapted 04-26-37; 11-13-44
45. Hands Across the Table (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn
Votes: 2,147
Adapted 05-03-37
46. Mary of Scotland (1936)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Directors: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Votes: 2,795
Adapted 05-10-37
47. Another Language (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Stella and Victor meet in Europe, fall deeply in love, and marry soon thereafter. Then they sail back to the States to meet Victor's family, and the honeymoon is over: Victor's family, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Louise Closser Hale, John Beal, Henry Travers, Margaret Hamilton
Votes: 398
Adapted 05-17-37
48. Under Two Flags (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Adventure
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 505
Adapted 05-24-37
49. The Plainsman (1936)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western
Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford
Votes: 2,428
Adapted 05-31-37
50. British Agent (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, History, Romance
It's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to prevent the Bolsheviks, led by Joseph ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Leslie Howard, Kay Francis, William Gargan, Phillip Reed
Votes: 749
Adapted 06-07-37
51. Madame X (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
Directors: Sam Wood, Gustav Machatý | Stars: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen
Votes: 505
Adapted 06-14-37
52. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance
When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon
Votes: 513 | Gross: $0.56M
Adapted 06-21-37
53. The Front Page (1931)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,445
Adapted 06-28-37
54. Beau Brummel (1924)
135 min | Drama, History, Romance
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers
Votes: 537 | Gross: $0.29M
Adapted 07-05-37
55. A Star Is Born (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson
Votes: 10,872 | Gross: $4.36M
Adapted 09-13-37; 12-28-42
56. The Outsider (1931)
72 min | Drama
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Norman McKinnel, Frank Lawton
Adapted 09-20-37
57. Cimarron (1931)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 6,918
Adapted 09-27-37
58. Stella Dallas (1937)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 6,274 | Gross: $2.00M
Adapted 10-11-37
59. Up Pops the Devil (1931)
74 min | Comedy
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 109
Adapted 10-18-37
60. Arrowsmith (1931)
Approved | 108 min | Drama
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E. Anson
Votes: 1,991
Adapted 10-25-37
61. A Free Soul (1931)
Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable
Votes: 2,933
Adapted 11-01-37
62. She Loves Me Not (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Miriam Hopkins, Kitty Carlisle, Edward J. Nugent
Votes: 216
Adapted 11-08-37
63. Come and Get It (1936)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler, Richard Rosson | Stars: Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,383
Adapted 11-15-37
64. The Petrified Forest (1936)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Thriller
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
Votes: 14,918
Adapted 11-22-37; 04-23-45
65. Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman living in an Irish fishing village inherits her late grandfather's estate, but is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady to collect the fortune.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Onslow Stevens, J. Farrell MacDonald, Juliette Compton
Votes: 1,522 | Gross: $1.00M
Adapted 11-29-37
66. These Three (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 3,030
Adapted 12-06-37
67. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,483
Adapted 12-13-37
68. The Song of Songs (1933)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 934
Adapted 12-20-37
69. Beloved Enemy (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 385
Adapted 12-27-37
70. Alice Adams (1935)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable
Votes: 4,557
Adapted 01-03-38
71. Enter Madame! (1934)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman, Sharon Lynn
Votes: 258
Adapted 01-10-38
72. Disraeli (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence, Joan Bennett
Votes: 1,378
Adapted 01-17-38
73. Clarence (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Pappa Wheeler hires a recently-discharged soldier, Clarence Smith, to repair a water heater and Wheeler keeps him on as an odd-job man around the house. Clarence discovers a few situations ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Roscoe Karns, Eleanore Whitney, Eugene Pallette, Johnny Downs
Votes: 19
Adapted 01-24-38
74. Green Light (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 621
Adapted 01-31-38
75. Anna Christie (II) (1930)
TV-PG | 85 min | Drama
A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Greta Garbo, Theo Shall, Hans Junkermann, Salka Viertel
Votes: 938
Adapted 02-07-38
76. Brief Moment (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 360
Adapted 02-14-38
77. Romance (1930)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Young Harry is in love and wants to marry an actress, much to the displeasure of his family. Harry thinks that Bishop Armstrong knows nothing about love, so Armstrong tells him the story of... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent
Votes: 1,032 | Gross: $1.60M
Adapted 02-21-38
78. Forsaking All Others (1934)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,570
Adapted 02-28-38
79. Poppy (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 753
Adapted 03-07-38
80. The Man Who Played God (1932)
TV-G | 80 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming, André Luguet
Votes: 1,276
Adapted 03-21-38
81. Naughty Marietta (1935)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,536
Adapted 03-28-38; 06-12-44
82. Dark Victory (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 12,393
Adapted 04-04-38; 01-08-40
83. Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster. The association results in her being tried and sentenced to a long prison term. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter, Pert Kelton
Votes: 313
Adapted 04-11-38
84. Mad About Music (1938)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 664
Adapted 04-18-38
85. Dangerous (1935)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 3,690
Adapted 04-25-38
86. The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Byron
Votes: 2,569
Adapted 05-02-38
87. My Man Godfrey (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick
Votes: 26,430
Adapted 05-09-38; 11-09-54
88. The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
A lawyer impulsively marries a stranger after his fiancée dumps him.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 1,431
Adapted 05-16-38
89. The Letter (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne
Votes: 875
Adapted 05-23-38
90. I Met My Love Again (1938)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance
College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's left in Paris, ... See full summary »
Directors: Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley, George Cukor | Stars: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Louise Platt, Alan Marshal
Votes: 429
Adapted 05-30-38
91. A Doll's House (1922)
70 min | Drama
Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Bryant | Stars: Alan Hale, Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Elinor Oliver
Votes: 25
Adapted 06-06-38
92. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Votes: 2,946
Adapted 06-13-38
93. Manslaughter (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 264
Adapted 06-20-38
94. Jane Eyre (1934)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Romance
A meek governess and her mysterious employer strike up a romantic relationship.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Virginia Bruce, Colin Clive, Beryl Mercer, David Torrence
Votes: 432
Adapted 06-27-38
95. I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason
Votes: 577
Adapted 07-04-38
96. Spawn of the North (1938)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 587
Adapted 09-12-38
97. Morning Glory (1933)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Mary Duncan
Votes: 3,286
Adapted 09-19-38; 10-12-42
98. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
Directors: William Hamilton, Edward Killy | Stars: Gene Raymond, Margaret Callahan, Eric Blore, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 317
Adapted 09-26-38
99. Another Dawn (1937)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, Errol Flynn, Ian Hunter, Frieda Inescort
Votes: 708
Adapted 10-03-38
100. Viva Villa! (1934)
Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,568 | Gross: $1.11M
Adapted 10-10-38
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